Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani made a firm promise to families in The Bronx while attending a holiday tree lighting ceremony on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to make sure that no longer is The Bronx is the forgotten borough of the city,” Mamdani told a crowd of spectators as they cheered. <\/p>\n
The democratic socialist joined Bronx Borough President Vanesa Gibson on stage, as dozens packed Lou Gehrig Plaza for the annual tree lighting and toy giveaway.<\/p>\n
When asked how he will ensure The Bronx isn’t forgotten, Mamdani told News 12 he will be thinking of the city’s poorest borough when it’s time for budget talks. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think a key part of delivering that is actually assuring we are thinking of The Bronx in our policies,” he said. “The Bronx often ends up becoming a footnote when it should actually be at the foreground of so much of what we\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
The borough president\u2019s office made sure Bronx kids weren\u2019t forgotten Friday night, as Santa took over borough hall and handed out toys one by one.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most rewarding part of today is serving the community,” said Bill Tipacti, director of community affairs. <\/p>\n
Tipacti says over the last four years, Univision and the borough president’s office handed out 10,000 toys, bringing smiles and holiday cheer to Bronx families during the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani made a firm promise to families in The Bronx while attending a holiday tree lighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[14616,128,249,25507,1030,969,1445,9,24,63,129,131,130,6707,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-62481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-borough-president","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-holiday","11":"tag-holiday-lights","12":"tag-holiday-season","13":"tag-holidays","14":"tag-mamdani","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-vanessa-gibson","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}